Muay Thai Warm Up Drills – Bound and Hop Series

by Don Heatrick
@donheatrick

For many, Muay Thai warm up drills are a wasted opportunity to become better fighter.

If raising your pulse and limbering up are all you are doing in your warm up, then there’s plenty being left on the table.

I’m not big on waste. And wasting time is my number 1 pet peeve. So let me cram some quality into less than a minute of your session preparation time.

VIDEO TRANSCRIPT

In this episode, I’m going to show you a super-quick lower-body warm up drill for Muay Thai S&C, that:
Primes you to be explosive in the rest of the session
Kickstarts your stability, balance and control
With practice, improves Muay Thai stance, footwork and kicking control
Doesn’t fatigue you at all!

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In my last video – No time to Exercise, I mentioned the exercise sections I have in every S&C session. And straight after the soft tissue work (typically with a foam roller), we go into the activation and movement prep. section.

That’s where we’re going today.

This simple, but super effective “bound and hop series” is a high-quality lower-body activation and movement prep drill for Thai boxers.

Perform 3 reps of each…

#1 Take off from 2-feet & land on 2-feet (2-2)

#2 Take off from 1-foot & land on 2-feet (1-2)

#3 Take off from 2-feet & land on 1-foot (2-1)

#4 Take from 1-foot & land on 1-foot (1-1 – same foot)

This lower body drill won’t even take you a minute to complete, and not only primes you for the rest of the session to come, but also begins building accumulative single-leg stability and control.

Control that will improve your Muay Thai stance, footwork and kicking.

Warm-up exercises should never waste valuable time. Time that could also be spent making you a better fighter. And these cumulative minutes really add up over the week, month, and year.

Plug drills like the bound and hop series into your warm up, and get better, not just ready to rock.

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Thank you, and I’ll catch you next time.